Developers in the JFrog Ecosystem team often face stability issues when relying on external servers to download pre-build tools via various package managers such as Chocolatey, Homebrew, and npm, which can lead to slow and unstable builds. These issues are exacerbated when using automatic build tools like Travis CI and Jenkins, resulting in occasional 5xx server errors and slow package downloads. To address these challenges, the use of Artifactory remote repositories is recommended as a solution, offering a proxy to remote servers that caches artifacts locally, thereby speeding up builds and providing a secure environment. An example is provided with the Chocolatey package manager, where a remote Nuget repository is defined in Artifactory to resolve 503 server errors, enhancing the stability and efficiency of builds by serving as a reliable source for package downloads. The blog post promises further exploration of use cases for other package managers like Homebrew and Yum in a subsequent article.